Thank you! Actually, I did see that, but that wasn't it. What finally got it working was that I had to turn OFF sending I/Q along with the audio. THAT was the problem. Now, unfortunately to use CW Skimmer with a lot of bandwidth that has to be on. The other problem is that it looks like DDUtil only handles 3 extra RCPs. So if I want to use DX Lab suite, HRD, CW Skimmer and FLDigi, I'm out of luck. At least for the moment. And if I want to use CW Skimmer and FLDigi, I have to remember to turn I/Q on for CW Skimmer (which I think is one fantastic CW decoder) and off for FLDigi, but then I haven't compared FLDigi with Brian's DM780 in HRD, so it may be that FLDigi isn't really all that necessary. Hopefully, there will be a way to do this with a macro.
Also, there's the issue of whether or not to use my amp and what do I do for a tuner. I have an old Murch Transmatch which works fine, but won't lend itself towards computerized switching. Anyone have any suggestions there? I'd love to get a STEPP-IR, if I ever can afford it and a new tower, but for 160-80-40, I need to use wires. 73 and a merry Christmas to all, -- Larry Rappaport, W1HJF r...@lmr.com -----Original Message----- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Erik Jakobsen Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 3:59 PM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] FLDigi and Rig control Your friend is Google. Brian Lloyd wrote this. (copy pasted from the mailarchive!) Hope ok Brian ?. <quote> 8. Install the Flex 5000 driver. 9. Install PowerSDR. 10. Make sure these are both working properly. 11. Install VAC 4.09 live version -- DO NOT INSTALL THE DEMO VERSION!!!!!!!!!! Configure it for two channels. 12. Install com0com. Configure it for two virtual RS232 cables: COM6<>COM16 and COM7<>COM17. Enable buffer overrun on both. 13. Configure PowerSDR Audio>VAC. Use Driver: MME, Input: Virtual Cable 2, Output: Virtual Cable 1. 14. Configure PowerSDR CAT Control for port COM6. Click to enable CAT. Set the ID as: PowerSDR. 13. Install ddutil. Configure it to talk to the rig on COM16. Configure it to talk to the rigctl program on COM17. 14. Download fldigi and the PowerSDR.xml rig control description file from the fldigi home page. 15. Install fldigi. Copy the PowerSDR.xml file to the rigs folder inside the fldigi.files folder. (The fldigi.files folder is at the top level for the user under "Documents and Settings".) 16. Configure fldigi soundcard configuration to use portaudio with Capture: Virtual Cable 1, and Playback: Virtual Cable 2. 17. Select the "Rig" tab of the fldigi configuration pane. Select the "RigCAT" tab. * Use RigCAT selected * Rig description file: PowerSDR.xml * Device: COM7 * Retries 3 * Retry interval 30 * command interval 80 * CAT command for PTT selected * click "initialize", "save", and "close". You are up and running. Yes, besides fldigi there are other digital mode programs. But since I run on MacOS, Windows, and Linux, I prefer fldigi. If you are only going to run on Windows then I suggest you also consider the Ham Radio Deluxe/DM780 combo. If you have followed the above instructions you can pretty much substitute HRD for fldigi. I find the logging in HRD and fldigi adequate for my uses. (I operate digital modes almost exculsively.) For occasional voice operation I use the logging in HRD as it supports this mode properly whereas the logging in fldigi does not. Good luck! 73 de Brian, WB6RQN/J79BPL P.S. I will try out my F5K on my MacBook Pro using the IEEE-1394b port with an adaptor cable and report back here. <end quote> 73s-Erik-OZ4KK > Well, that may have been it. I used a file sent to me from Brett Mills and > that seemed to make the rig control work. Now, I just have to get the audio > working. I have NO waterfall display and when I set it to CW, I get the > receive window filled with e's. I've obviously got something wrong. In > PowerSDR, I've got audio set to virtual audio cable one and virtual audio > cable two. In FLDigi, audio tab, I've got them reversed. I even went to > Windows Control Panel -> Sound and set the input and output to the same as > in FLDigi. I'm missing something... > > > 73, > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to r...@lmr.com _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
